Winnipeg Free Press

Saturday, May 23, 1931

Issue date: Saturday, May 23, 1931
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Next edition: Monday, May 25, 1931

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Manitoba Free Press (Newspaper) - May 23, 1931, Winnipeg, Manitoba Headings free press thermometer readings May 22 a60 May 22 j4 May j50 May for full text of meteorological of ire report Sec Page Fott 275 and Sun Moon Sun Moon May 1931 Sun Moon Sun Moon Price 5c per copy edition with pages Streib named by coroners jury As of wheat scheme provides creation of continuing committee to find Means of collaboration Canadian Delegate to prepare final report for submission to plenary session today polish and danubian countries ask More rigid form of International organization Canadian press May wheat con Ference meets tomorrow for what is expected to be the final plenary ses throughout today and Well into the evening the main plans com Mittee ploughed through draft re it finally reached an agree ment on a scheme which As previously outlined provides for the creation a continuing committee of con Speed Holman killed in crash 1e5t wheat year to be difficult government hard pressed to Complete Clori Irchirl in Manion informs commons negotiations with shipping companies on tonnage and other matters under Way spectre of High freight and insurance rates hangs Over whole Bay navigation route attendant of is in Cash Canadian press May Row boat pirate made his appearance on Coal Harbor Here last rowing to the Imperial Oil com pants service he boarded the Craft and at gunpoint made Jack reveal the hid ing place of his and put off again with fifty one dollars in Cash Dunphy was left tied up hand and foot and was not freed until his shouts attracted help from a nearby Liberal Leader View of the actual crash of Charles Speed Holmans pane As it was flying upside Down performing stunts for the spectators at the Omaha air it is believed he lost control of the plane after his safety Belt had Veteran Pilot and Winner of the Thompson trophy in the featured race at the National air show in Chicago last had Long h Een known As one of the most daring o by Gant Dexter free press staff correspondent May govern ment will be hard pressed to Complete Churchill in time to make possible the test movement of wheat Olhs negotiations with shipping com1 panties in regard to tonnage and other quest Orting rom persistent questioning fails to draw statement from Manion to 1 conducted on Elmwood murder victims court is visibly moved when Lillian stricken enters witness Box to Tell of discovery of lifeless bodies of her three confession by read by gives details of triple John confined to the general Hospital under close with Throat Selfin flicked with a was named in a verdict returned at an inquest at Central police Friday As the murderer of the three children of Lillian 338 Riverton who were brutally slain in their Home last whose condition Early this morning was reported by Hospital officials is fairly was formally i a alleged to have teen made by him to the police at the wednesday in which he admitted the read minister gives opinion that i at the Tran Canada Highway to gives the stricken Mother of the three be built by provinces i Young victims broke Down when she j was Means of considerable saving in last eight Bracken states Premier replies to criticism by conservative group legislature policies of the provincial govern ment during the last eight in Stead of increasing the losses of the Canadian press May was called As a witness at the eni Manitoba farm Loans Quiry which was conducted by i have resulted in the saving Hun provincial wearing deep her tragic to the of which the special i auction will be to provide Means of collaboration Between wheat exporting coun tries of the when the com Mittee Rose the task was entrusted to of the Canadian to prepare the final report and submit it plenary session those who i Youthful robber and com co far enough and those who think j it goes too far and would prefer what j would have been Little More than Ai Xvi anon new Bureau of during to Days it is understood the polish and danubian countries pressed for the creation of a mor3 rigid form of International the United states was against acceptance of anything which might j savor any International Argentine and Canada were Sairs quota which la was Felt would have ail Adverse effect in their 1 Rind Means for collaboration i Bandit who studied aviation for three tiie Stop Gap Between the isear1 sentenced to seven years and 16 lashes for armed robbery of Edmonton shop i Are under but Over the whole Bay navigation route hovers the spectre of Mackenzie Liberal in the House of commons failed to draw from she had be steel by her of thousands of this declaration was made by minister and pastor of Wesley pent Acosta Premier John Bracken Friday when dealing with the operations High freight and insurance of railways and any while alive to the pro statement of policy with regard to i can do will do this Little the building of the Tran Canada i As Best it and Hopes that exp per hence on the new route will bring j freight rates to a just and fair these were the chief Points made j tilt actions from the Dominion gov by Marion in the discus As she took the she covered her face with her weeping to recall the Hor ror almost More than she could with Brave Effort she tried to this commercial Enterprise of Trie province and replying to criticisms made by members of the conservative group in the Points that were emphasized by the Premier were that the statements broadcast by Only very iriss i finance committee recomj3ion which took place m the com May i nation captured while Justice was meted out in police mends appropriation of f i Horo when Jack i court when Jack j i convicted of j j the armed robbery of a downtown i last was sentenced i additional Stem the and scarcely sobbed out her Story partisan critics were not encouraged by the Jandly prompting but were greatly the provinces with the Aid of con of the who left his Bench Mons today on the item of for the Hudson Bay railway and p j the item was Kates on Grain to Krone j promised to construct the trans Oclock wednesday morning and of j Early in the Manion i Canada Highway As a Federal under returning about to find the stole automobile in Pontiac j and air plane in Detroit for getaway to seven and Winnipeg has contributed j Canadian press May Youthful Eastern proposals on the one hand and the american viewpoint on the other was very the aim of the committees report is an Endeavor to Bridge the Gap by providing Means for there was some suggestion tonight that the european countries when the conference assembles present some re but so far they have accented the say Tor the perfect had his wings clipped Here with ills com he is now in a local cell awaiting extradition for a Bank Rob Bery at Louis is the Short time aviator Adam i 16 strokes of arrested on the last by chief of detectives j pleaded entering a store in the heart of i the cites retail area at Beattie lined up 20 customers and employees at the Point of a forced a cashier to open the Cash stole in and of paid out since january 1 ii cannot give any definite he but i can say that some the direct unemployment Relief a Teai ship companies have indicated ment and the officials of the can by the Indian National steamship is the and with difficulty minister making a state could Force herself to it s proposed that the continuing when two were changing trains i j f 1 1uaia d t i vec Trio i have Power to make re if conditions a recommendation the conference it is secretarial form of Clearing Housa to information on crops and the Central idea behind the is an Endeavor to restore Market Confidence by helping to eliminate advocates of the scheme also hold that while avoiding rigid International control it by collaboration operate against the menace of dump ii and stimulate More orderly newsof1hem Hill Lait former noted Lacrosse player with old Winnipeg latterly general storekeeper at Beaver shot and killed his wife and took his own Page ingenious trickery and skilfully designed to accommodate is Way Yorkshire Post refers to address of soviet Delegate at wheat Parley in main plans committee of London wheat conference reaches agreement on report on which will be presented to plenary session of con Ference Mckenzie King resents question on order paper relating to Rodolphe declaring would constitute libel anywhere but in Furter voted in House of commons for Welland ship Heenan charges some men working 13 hours a Day on construction Page Popes encyclical on labor awaited by politicians in and speculation Rife As to effect remarks on socialism will have in Page government hard pressed to com plete Churchill in time for test ship ment of wheat this Manion informs hearing of evidence and argument on copyrights Hill concluded by Spe Cial committee of House of Youthful who Learned to for perfect and com arrested in Between Mackenzie King Manion in commons Over St Lawrence Waterways president of steel corporation charges companies of the headlines hot maintaining wage ten stocks and one Bond Issue touch new lows for the year on the Montreal Stock John Pioneer business Man and resident of Winnipeg pc 58 John Streib named by coroners jury As Slayer of three Walters Chil Winnipeg unemployment Relief appropriation is overspent by the Oil issues Are a firm spot in or Standard Toron for Montreal detectives took them into and the Money they admitted stealing from the Bank Vas their statement to he police was decidedly of the dime novel and one of the wierd est and most daring local officials lad Ever on May they stole a ight motor oar in they As they were starting the motor of the owner cime out of his they promptly dragged ilm into the drove ten and gave the owner two dollars to return to his Home they drove the car to and parked it in a vacant Field on the outskirts of the then they went Back to Detroit by Auto in the pair went to an aviation Field where Kish had been learning to they stole an air two five gallon cans of Gaso and Early in the morning of Friday flew the ship Back to the Field at Pontiac where they had parked the for some they they had been trying find a key to lit the door of the Pontiac commercial savings Bank and Trust company Branch at Lawrence and South Saginaw their search was before the Bank continued on Pace pour father Drois while trying Mojave dives into shallow Pool while child misses footing Canadian press May lives were claimed Here late when Alfred aged dived into shale Pool in an unsuccessful Effort to Rescue from drowning his aged the Twoy Earold child was play ing with companions on the Edge of the when lie slipped and lost his footing on the other Chil Dren gave the and Alfred the walking came to the he in after t he but drowned him self before he could effect a Engineer killed in wreck May Engineer of the Buffal Pittsburgh express of the Pennsylvania Railroad was killed today when the train was wrecked by a Boulder which had dropped from a Cliff 350 feet above the pc privation of City Council for 1931 has already been overspent by the civic finance committee was in formed on Friday afternoon by that they would be willing to Send ships into fort Churchill and carry brain from there to Europe at a rate somewhat but not extravagantly than the Montreal George acting City comp of the whole question is made More Complex by the fact that realizing that Relief payments in the future could not be made with out Money the committee on the motion of Alderman the appropriation of an additional to cover the Over expenditures and the commit ments which would occur in the next few has Cost ally do to Friday had been spent on unemployment Relief by the City of Winnipeg alone since january contributions have also been made by the Dominion and provincial bringing the expenditures close to payment of the Cost of erecting extensions to the buildings in the City Wood amounting to was also and the two governments will be asked to Bear their share of the without exception members of the committee expressed the opinion that the time had a Csc for drastic action in dealing with the unemployment one or two of them went so far As to predict that the City would be bankrupt if some move was not made to alleviate the Alderman Flye and Alderman Simonite believed that both the pro Lawrence Waterways is topic of debate in House Mackenzie King wants to know Progress has been made toward fulfilling election Promise made that the scheme would be taken up and completed at continued on Page four the insurance enters into it to a very marked because if the insurance rates were very this might counteract any advantage accruing from the haul from the Prairies via Churchill to i do not think an intelligent answer can be Given until later in the sea when we have made arrange ments perhaps for some private com Pany to take Grain via that we Are doing the Best we can to have a private company handle the whole of asked King from the free press May 22 lying on a bed in ceo Ever men c i am not making a statement d with a were her Little in Yllic years Vest Crual said f and of the i am stating my f continued on prig two me Oreao in i twin continued on Page the feeling about the Muddy Gap children Phi Yin Between the Steamboat Landing and j i did not think they were Itile end of the which Yawn Walters i thought the to give new i Ruey were playing a on i a Comers a bad first impression of Viu turned Over the Sheet a not looked at j was growing so High thai a it was then i correspondent it j and there was i5 a co an Ontario Bac Wootis j no blood by his i not think j a timely word was inserted George was i put my free press local column for Bounri i Felt that he was i the Zariv bridging of this morass by then i ran Cut of the Over to sustaining Plank j besides Only six other Eleventon Thold baby is taken to Hospital in serious condition witnesses were and the jury occupied less than half an hour in arriving at its text of its text was As follows the find that Oeor a fifth years i there was a Good Deal of mortar being splashed in the epidemic boo time building which had come upon but perhaps the Champion splashes of All mortar Dom band of masons who were month sold baby was condition in Hospital today truss i May persons were dead and an 11j frown the evidence submitted in serious three deceased above mentioned were of pred by John i we the wish to express our j fort Lluc years ago Neill explains Bill to Amend criminal code manager of lumber Yard slays wife and two daughters Canadian press May a credit j mans organization in Winnipeg had lad to Deal with bad cheques the past declared Neill Como Alberni in the House of commons the amount of those cheques totalling this showed the he for an enactment that would Render the passing of bad cheques More Dif Neill was speaking to his Dill amending the criminal code in this he had Only four min utes to go before the hour for private Bills and was still explaining the proposed legislation when 9 Oclock result of an automobile train Colli Sion Here last the dead were Ralph Beverly three Earold miss Mary a Barbara Jean 11 month suffered body bruises and physician said she would deep sympathy with the Mother 01 the Manitoba Conven the deceased and to thank held at Portage la Prairie Buntan for the kindness and of the interesting papers read Tance shown toward and also for his services rendered to the police after the was by superintendent of schools Somerset others were read by Macklin Allan Oiler witnesses who gave a Good on the other witnesses who testified j miss who spoke on abuses of were who identified the the educational system in and by whom the police were and Neil on first noted of the murders i Boniface was so tilled who performed the pos with newcomers that there was not a Portem examination i House to continued on pase Fourt ing that in the election the conservative Canadian press May Lawrence Waterways scheme formed the basis of an Exchange in the House of commons today Between Mackenzie Liberal and min ister of railways and pre facing his remarks by quoting Premier Bennett As say Campaign if placed in would take up the St Lawrence scheme and com plete it at King desired to know what Progress had been was inter National and provincial in replied communications had been exchanged Between Ottawa and Washington and there stir remained Many details to be arranged Between the Federal government and the provinces and be Tureen and Washington and also with new York no Manion admit Ted had been on the actual Dyzgin of the but that wow take 8 to 10 years to the whole scheme was too important and too vast to de cide in a few when he was prime Kin Bennett As opposition had taken Issue with him on the groundwork that must be done before an actual Start made King admitted there was a variety of considerations to toe kept in mind and Many negotiations to be but he re minded the House that the elec Tion Campaign said the Liberal government did not they did not dare to com Mence the he asked if More than one communication had been addressed to Washington of the that could be answered Only by the prime who was minis Ter of external during the election Campaign the charge against the liberals was Lack of action in nine years and surely this is different to a charge of inactivity in nine proceeded seemed to be More in thus Sastic about it now than he was when in during the election Campaign the statements of King were difficult to in i admit i was interjected but Bennett went the we want to know How far he intends carrying out his Universal just Little re Quested j Brown asked if the Resolution passed at the Winnipeg convention calling for an Al Canadian route still was the policy of the conservative negotiations had not proceeded to the Point where Type Canadian press May shot and killed his wife and two daughters and then drowned himself in a Lake near Camrose this Vooght is said to have been despondent Over business he was manager of a lumber Yard in at four Friday he took the consisting of 8 and ostensibly for a pleasure at a Point 14 Miles Camrose he shot the two girls and his As a passing car approached the scene he left Jack in his automobile and ran to a nearby where he drowned his body has been had teen sentenced to eight years for attacking woman Canadian press May rence last of attacking Edith Simpson when he entered her House in the Guise of a Light was today sentenced to eight years in Portsmouth magistrate remarked that it was a tenth beats children to de Atli May police Bat his two children to death with a Hammer Early today and injured his wife so badly it was feared she would Skillings later severe an artery in his in what was described As a dying Skillings implicated her husband and said he had been jealous of weather report the is the weather report issued from the Winnipeg Meteorol Orical office at 7 60 maximum for preceding 12 r63 South wind Ai 21 Miles per hour sky the weather has been fair and warmer in the Western provinces and cooler in Ontario and Mima aklavik32 38 Saskatoon 31 62 60 it Simpson 42 Smith 25 Dawson 32 rupert46 56 Victoria 50 60 i 52 g2 52 62 21 Yorkton 43 63 Resina Brandon Kenora 33 56 arthur34 4 Ocean steamships Roosevelt arrived new York Hamburg deutschland new York Hamburg Caledonia new York Glasgow Western Prince new York Buenos Aires Leviathan new York Marseilles York and Cochrane Huntsville 35 55 Jasper Banff 24 60 27 54 calsarv21 58 Lethbridge 3c 56 Edmonton 28 62 current32 66 Battleford 64 38 34 sound34 London 36 Toronto 41 Kingston 44 54 Ottawa 44 60 Montreal 46 c2 Quebec 46 6 John 44 s Halifax 50 70 hat 30 62 52 70 Moose jaw 35 66 p o b e c a s t b winds fair Anc fair and warm probably a few scattered fair with steady Tern few scattered Pesature probably highlights from the capital despatch to the free by May for first time in some weeks the House of commons devoted the whole of an afternoon and evening to the Teady grind of routine estimates for the most persistently cheery and unruffled by Manion succeeded in carrying through several Large the Days proceed nos were unmarked by incident except the acid lated Exchange be tween King and Bennett about the conduct of Rodolphe now a when he was speaker of the senator though a habitual attender at commons debates was not present to hear himself criticized and de the arose from a series of containing unpleasant asked about Lem lexus use of state property during his and the party leaders agreed that such a method of political warfare much favored by certain Quebec members unable to consume their own would be better in the debate on railway estimates the Burden of questioning was shouldered chiefly Mackenzie As an opposition chief King is attends and pursues the ministry in an agile his guide Book for the Pur pose is the f Stout bound volume or Bennetts promises which he car Ries to and from his from this work he can pick out instantaneously what Bennett said at Winnipeg about a at Halifax about a or at Vancouver about a King enjoys Reading from this Book to the House of after Manion has Nevitte fur ther the next minister to try his hand at piloting estimates will Likely be he will have a rough some weeks ago it was the inclination of Western liberals to temp no with mercy whatever Creti but since the minister of made his Maiden speech describing Mackenzie King As a political outcast and Motherwell an agricultural the View hat Weir must be treated gently s a Tenderfoot has been revised the minister of agriculture himself no anger wears the air of an innocent Zefora his speech he sat in he House with a forlorn and timid now he appears confident and for All debate on Lis estimates will assuredly Start again the argument on the plight of the wheat growers and the govern ments apparent unwillingness or in capacity to do anything about the most recent Rumor about Bennetts budget is that it May not appear till Early in in which Case prorogation by Dominion Dai seems the illness of minister of National Rev has heaped fresh tasks upon Ryckman would ordinarily take a share of the labor of budget but it is that he will be unable to return to the House this despite his forty years ago the special general meeting of the Winnipeg Board of attended by representative business men of the City of was devoted to a discussion of the Rumor regarding the withdrawal of the Northern Pacific from and the following deputation wa5 appointed to inter View the provincial government on this matter Kenneth William James Porter and Manlius such Alon years Mii the worlds present bicycle had infected and there was i a procession of bicycles passing g the choicest sidewalks that pedestrians had to take a Back seat the Board of works therefore recommended to the City Council that Here after a least some of the cites Side walks be legally indicated As no cycling thirty years the had decided to Start work at once on the 40mile Exten Sion of the great Northwest starting at Forrest the Shamrock which was to born the challenger for the americas m in the forthcoming struck by a Squall and seriously dam uric ii Uoc j herculean Bennett off Cowes King pears fit and he leads the j was on had a narrow Escapa ii ouse with his moods i from so that on one Day his re1 plies Are Curt and the next Twenty live years As Day but there is no outward Lagimodiere Mother sign of any break in the prime Louis passed away in ministers Rio Attical of use of 86 during All political sustained by an immense Sel Confidence and a robust he proceeds on his conversation and conference about the Beauharnois inquiry the predictions Are that the House committee will contain anywhere from seven to fifteen with an Ontario conservative As chair Fobert the Leader who precipitated the is not mentioned As a Likely member of the inquisitorial the party May be represented by of Bow and another Westerner mentioned is of Mose a in conference with the arime has urged that the face at the great age of 86 during her Long she had never had occasion to Call a not even at any of the births of her ten Chil Dren she was the daughter of taste famous franch Canadian who had once made a record tramp on snowshoes from bed River to Twenty years ago t the free press purchased the site for its new Home on Carlton just North or Portage among theatrical attractions in or on the Way to Winnipeg were Lew Dock Atadero and Albert Council of the municipality of As sin Bola was in a quandary As to onic Sistu i a Viii terms of reference be wide enough to i to with Pang t weirs allow a thorough Avenue through ;